PREFACE. THE Editors wish it to be understood that they will not consider themselves responsible for facts alleged or arguments advanced by contributors to Hermathena. They will accept any communication which shall seem to them interesting and useful, though they may not adopt all the views put forward in it. They do not, of course, mean that they will publish articles which they think radically vicious as to method, or the object of which is to dispute conclusions scientifically established, and now received by all competent inquirers. But they will not consider it a sufficient reason for rejecting a communication otherwise valuable, that the author, in handling his subject, introduces isolated statements which sound Science does not justify. The Journal will be published annually, under the management of the following Committee: JOHN K. INGRAM, LL.D., Professor of Greek. BENJAMIN WILLIAMSON, A.M. J. P. MAHAFFY, A.M., Professor of Ancient History. ROBERT Y. TYRRELL, A.M., Professor of Latin. Communications may be addressed to R. Y. TYRRELL, ESQ., 38, Trinity College, or to any of the CONTENTS. Strictures on Mr. Luard's Edition of a French Poem on the On the Meaning of Certain Homeric Words. By JOHN Criticism on Mr. Payley's Propertius. By ARTHUR PALMER, A.M., Fellow of Trinity College Plato's Obligations to the Ionic and Eleatic Schools. By On the Foundation of the Science of Number, according to the Philosophy of Kant. By FRANCIS A. TARLETON, 245 |